I honestly didn't hate T3 as much as most people seem to. It was completely unnecessary, and do have some cheesy humour at times, but it had good action scenes, decent effects, and Kristana Loken was hot. She can't act, but when was that a prerequisite to play a Terminator?

Terminator Savatuon had do much potential. A new trilogy, set in the future (we all loved the future "flashbacks" in the original movies) with a pretty decent cast. It was neutered by attempts to get is a 12 certificate and a lack of the large scale guerrilla warfare I wanted to see. It also didn't feel all that futuristic compared to the scenes in T1 and T2. A massively squandered opportunity.

Pierre2k wrote:
Terminator Savatuon had do much potential. A new trilogy, set in the future (we all loved the future "flashbacks" in the original movies) with a pretty decent cast. It was neutered by attempts to get is a 12 certificate and a lack of the large scale guerrilla warfare I wanted to see. It also didn't feel all that futuristic compared to the scenes in T1 and T2. A massively squandered opportunity.

Whilst it's understandable that people were annoyed that it didn't look like how it was depicted in the earlier movies, the thing everyone overlooks is that future scenes in T1/2 were set in 2029. Salvation is set in 2018.

Maybe it was because I had low expectations going into Terminator 3, but I didn't think it was that bad!

... the scene with the fire engine (?) whereby Arnie was hanging off the swinging ladder was just as good as some of the big action sequences in Terminator 2. The ending was abrupt and the female Terminator - whilst easy on the eye - was not overly threatening, especially compared to the blank faced, emotionless and menacing Robert Patrick.

Be interesting to see where the series goes from here onwards however, just like I did with the third outing, it would be wise to keep your expectations low.

Pierre2k wrote:
Terminator Savatuon had do much potential. A new trilogy, set in the future (we all loved the future "flashbacks" in the original movies) with a pretty decent cast. It was neutered by attempts to get is a 12 certificate and a lack of the large scale guerrilla warfare I wanted to see. It also didn't feel all that futuristic compared to the scenes in T1 and T2. A massively squandered opportunity.

With this new film, have the writers decided to just ignore Salvation?